BUILDING BLOCKS: Bricklayer Liu Xueju processed ‘buwa,’ a kind of roof tile, in Xuan’en county, Hubei Province, China, Thursday. Buwa used to be an essential material in building Diaojiao Lou, a kind of folk house of some ethnic groups in China. (Song Wen/Xinhua/Zuma Press)

LONELY LUNCH: People ate lunch in their partitioned units at an evacuation center for people affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Thursday. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)

GAS LINE: A soldier allowed a limited number of motorcycles to proceed as others waited for their turn to fill up outside an army-run gas station in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday. Nepal imports all its oil products from India but supply has stopped because the state-owned company has failed to pay its bills. (Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press)

TRADITION: A woman held a lit candle in front of the graves of her relatives at a cemetery in the village of Copaciu, Romania, Thursday. Orthodox women went to church and cemeteries in the early morning on Maundy Thursday to light candles, burn incense and mourn their dead relatives. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)

GONE FISHING: A young boy walked over rocks near the Baltic Sea at Niendorf village near Timmendorfer Beach, Germany, during sunny spring weather. (Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images)